Becker County News

Ita s three down and one to go for establishment of the Prairie Lakes Municipal Solid Waste Authority that would oversee operations of the refuse burner in Perham.

Services for Evelyn Ingrid Sullinger, 69, Osage, are at 11 a.m. Saturday at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Snellman.

We Minnesotans seem to find lists irresistible, as long as we're on them . There's just something about being No.

Around 5:30 P.M. Thursday, the Becker County Sheriff's Office received a report of a one car rollover on a rural township road.

Some rural Minnesota counties are concerned expanding the state's welfare fraud efforts will overload investigators and weaken a successful program.

Changes to a successful welfare fraud investigation program are raising some concerns about overloading investigators, reports MPR .

Three people are in custody for allegedly burglarizing dozens OF homes in Becker and Otter Tail counties since early September.

A plan to consolidate 911 emergency call centers across the state is drawing fire in northwestern Minnesota.

NEW YORK The Becker County Record, Detroit Lakes, Minn., has moved to Sunday distribution from Wednesday , while sister publication The Detroit Lakes Tribune is moving from Sunday to Wednesday distribution, Editor Nathan Bowe informed readers Friday on the DL-Online Web site.

At about 11:00 a.m. on Friday, September 25, the Becker County Sheriffa TMs Department received a report of a head-on collision three miles east of White Earth on County Highway 34.

The Becker County sheriff's office is identifying the mother and her two children who were killed in a head-on collision near White Earth last week.

Here is the latest Minnesota news from The Associated Press WHITE EARTH, Minn. Becker County officials say a Pine Point mother and her two sons died after a head-on collision near White Earth.

A Pine Point mother and her two sons died Friday after a head-on collision near White Earth sent their vehicle skidding down a steep embankment and into Net Lake.

On Sept. 24, 1909, about a year after a city-owned dam was built as part of a hydroelectric station along the Otter Tail River east of Fergus Falls, employee Ben Snyder was awakened at 4:20 a.m. and noticed the lights fading.

Authorities are working on identifying a body that was found in the wreckage of a house fire.

The White Earth Fire Department battled a blaze that destroyed a mobile home in a secluded area in Sugar Bush Township, just after 7 a.m. Thursday.

Required fields are marked with an asterisk The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications.

"We should be cutting cow numbers nationwide. And maybe that means making CWT mandatory at 15 cents or 20 cents on each cow sold.

Lake Park resident, Mindi Mikkelson was attacked by a mother cow after showing children a young calf.

The Becker County Sheriffa TMs Department reports that one of the three survivors of a serious crash in eastern Becker County on July 4 in which four people died has been arrested and is now being held in the Becker County Jail in Detroit Lakes.